Autograph letter signed : Devizes, Wiltshire, to Joseph Hill, 1771 Aug. 29.

Record ID: 
262851
Accession number: 
MA 733.45
Author: 
Bumpsted, W., 18th cent.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description: 
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes: 

Address panel with seal and postmarks.
Part of a collection of letters from John Newton primarily to Mrs. Gardiner. Items in the collection have been described separately in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 733 for more information.

Summary: 

Congratulating him on his marriage, complaining of a fever, and concluding his discomfort should be "sufft. to demonstrate to the Philosopher that Pain is the greatest of all Evils, except that of being a Batchelor."

Provenance: 
Purchased from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. probably before 1913.